Hat or the like.



No. 735,790. PATENTED AUG ll, 190s.

- s. H. MBBRZA.

HAT OR THE LIKE.

APPLIOATION FILED SEPT. 29, 1902.

I/nu" M 7 amrneu s UNITED STATES Patented August 11, 1903.

SYUD- HOZOOR MEERZA, OF LONDON, ENGLAND.

HAT OR THE LI KE.

SEECIFIQATIOII forming part of Letters Patent No. 735,790, dated August11, 1903. Application filed September 29, 1902. $eri-al No. 125,296. (Nomodel.)

T 00% whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, SYUD I-Iozoon MEERZA, a subject of the King of GreatBritain, residing at 34 Oolville Square Mansions, Talbot road,Bayswater, London, England, have in- Vented new and useful Improvementsin and Relating to Hats or the Like, of which the following is aspecification. v

This invention has reference to improvements in and relating to hats andthe like,

I the object being to provide means for ventimaking reference to theaccompanying drawing, which represents a sectional side view of ahelmet, but-I do not confine its use to helmets. I make the helmet orthe like with an inner wall a and an outer one I), so as to provide anintervening air -space a. The walls a and b are connected by aclosing-ring d; but the upper part of the inner wall a is open, as at e.WVithin the helmet or like I provide a fan f, preferably a centrifugalone, which is attached to the helmet in any suitable manner. The fan fdraws its supply of air from the usual ventilator g or from aspecially-provided one or from several ventilators. The air drawn in bythe fan f is directed through the open top e of the inner wall to thehead of the wearer and is also circulated between the walls aand b andforced out through openings h, pipes 1 or tubesj, provided in orattached to the closure-ring cl of the air-space 6. hen tubesj areused,tl1eymay be pushed small wheel having cups around its periphery-:5-

into which air is blown from a bulb 7c and led to the fan by a tube Z.

As already mentioned, although the invention is only shown as applied toa helmet,

nevertheless I do not confine it to that'one use, but may apply it toany other head-gear or the like.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

In helmets having an outer wall and an open-topped inner wall separatedtherefrom, means for retaining the said walls relatively to each otherand having a ventilating-fan attached to the interior of the said helmetbetween said walls, and pneumatic means for operating the said fan,substantially as hereinbefore described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

SYUD I-IOZOOR MEERZA.

W'itnesses:

ERNEST HENRY SWEETSER, ERNEST F. FOTHERGILL.

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